[U-Boot] [PATCH] examples/standalone: Remove relocation compile flags for PowerPC

Peter Tyser ptyser at xes-inc.com
Tue Jun 15 05:25:25 CEST 2010


Previously, standalone applications were compiled with gcc flags that
produced relocatable executables on the PowerPC architecture (eg with
the -mrelocatable and -fPIC flags).  There's no reason for these
applications to be fully relocatable at this time since no relocation
fixups are performed on standalone applications.

Additionally, removing the gcc relocation flags results in the entry
point of applications residing at the base of the image.  When
a standalone application was relocatable, the entry point was generally
located at an offset into the image which was confusing and prone to
errors.

This change moves the entry point of PowerPC standalone applications
from 0x40004 (usually) to 0x40000.

Signed-off-by: Peter Tyser <ptyser at xes-inc.com>
---
I tested this on an 8548-based board and it worked as described above.  It
wouldn't hurt if a few others tried it out to validate that the new entry
point is always 0x40000.

 examples/standalone/Makefile |    8 ++++++++
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/examples/standalone/Makefile b/examples/standalone/Makefile
index 6ea3b93..0c8dbe7 100644
--- a/examples/standalone/Makefile
+++ b/examples/standalone/Makefile
@@ -72,6 +72,14 @@ gcclibdir := $(shell dirname `$(CC) -print-libgcc-file-name`)
 
 CPPFLAGS += -I..
 
+# For PowerPC there's no need to compile standalone applications as a
+# relocatable executable.  The relocation data is not needed, and
+# also causes the entry point of the standalone application to be
+# inconsistent.
+ifeq ($(ARCH),powerpc)
+CFLAGS := $(filter-out $(RELFLAGS),$(CFLAGS))
+endif
+
 all:	$(obj).depend $(OBJS) $(LIB) $(SREC) $(BIN) $(ELF)
 
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1.7.0.4



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